Personal InvestingHow I've Made Money

Prologue

For as long as I can remember...
well, at least the last ten years,
I have been investing with a
stability strategy.

When I say stability strategy,
I mean stocks were purchased
with the intent of holding on to them
for the duration of a long bull
market. The chart labeled #1
shows the beginning of this strategy -
Novemeber of 1987. From that time
until December of 1995, I purchased
and held a diversified portfolio of
commonly traded stocks. As the chart
shows, the term stability refers to
the STABLE RISE in the stock market.

The stability strategy almost always
works miracles in the long run, however;
during volatile market times, money can
be made when a stock goes down in price
(as well as,
when a stock goes up in price.)